KEEPING IN SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8797, 26 April 1907, Page 4

KEEPING IN SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Has a headmaster the right to "keep a child in" after specified school hours without the consent of his parents? The question arose fit a householders meeting, and a delegate to the School Committee's A:sociation maintained that no such right existed. The matter had been before the Associaion, which had discovered that according to stature the teacher could not detain a child. '' One by one,'' said another member indignantly, "these new-fangled associations will try to take away every duty of a headmaster, until he lias nothing to do. They will not allow him to keep a child in, and there will be no discipline at all. I want to enter my protest against such a thnig. I hope a master will always be allowed to keep a child in, and also punish a child. A few more hammeringss will mean a few less larrikins.'' The chairman said that the association had been badly advised in coming to the conclusion put forward. The master had the right of detention. It was purely a question of discipline, and they could rest assured that Government was not going to clip the wings of the headmaster so that ho could not fly round his own premises and grounds.